Conference Schedule at a Glance

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

8:30am – 9:30 am

Registration and Check-in

Continental Breakfast

9:30am – 11:00am

Welcome and Introductions

Lyn Murphy, PhD, MBA, MS, RN

Director of Professional Development
Conference Co-Chair, University of Maryland School of Nursing

Opening Remarks

Janet Allan, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN

Dean and Professor
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Carol Nizzardini, MS, RN

Chief Executive
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System (VAMHCS)
Baltimore, MD

Commander Lura Jane Emery Keynote Address

Collaboration and Consensus: The Leadership of Evidence-Based Practice

Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, FAAN

Senior Partner and Mediator, Tim Porter-O’Grady and Associates
Atlanta, GA

The move to an evidence-based practice environment represents a significant shift in global practices affecting every element of the human experience.  Evidence-based practice represents the management of life processes within a digital infrastructure in a way that dramatically alters both the focus and frame for service delivery.  Creating this environment requires strong and effective leadership that reflects a new set of skill parameters and focused demands for the leader different from those previously obtained.  This session focuses on the demands for an evidence driven set of parameters in a clinical environment and the emerging requisite leadership skills necessary to lead practitioners toward thriving in an evidentiary environment.

11:15am – 12:15 pm

A. Concurrent Sessions

1A. Panel Discussion

Collaborative Success Stories: Using Evidence to Improve Patient Outcomes

Moderator: Mary Marchetto, MSN, RN

Director of Nursing Education and Research Center (118)
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System
Baltimore, MD

As health care providers, we are challenged to provide patients with the highest quality of health care available. When providers are able to identify, critique, and implement the “best” evidence using a collaborative approach, improved patient outcomes are likely to be the result of their efforts. In this presentation, we will explore success stories of how health care providers used the evidence to change their practice in order to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

    1. Vital signs during blood transfusions
      Nancy Santos, BSN, RN
      Nurse Manager
      Franklin Square Hospital Center
      Baltimore, MD

      Mary Lou Reiter, BSN, RN
      Staff Nurse
      Franklin Square Hospital Center
      Baltimore, MD

    2. Normathermic post-op recovery techniques
      Daniel Bochicchio, MD, FCCP
      Colonel, Medical Corps
      Vice Chief Surgeon

      Suzanne Hook, RN, MSN
      Associate Chief Nurse Surgery
      Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System
      Baltimore, MD
2A. Panel Discussion

Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Your Magnet Journey

Moderator: Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, RN

Associate Dean
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Evidence-based practice is the mechanism by which health care providers can ensure that patients receive the highest quality of care. As an essential component of the Forces of Magnetism, encouraging health care providers to promote and support the use of evidence-based practice is critical for organizations embarking on the Magnet journey. In this panel discussion, we will explore the implementation of evidence-based practice into your Magnet journey.

3A.

Evidence-Based Practice Partnerships: Guidelines and Education

Claudia Reid Ravin, MSN, CNM, RN-BC

Associate Director, Educational Services
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses

We know evidence-based practice can improve patient care outcomes, standardize practice and strengthen nursing as a profession and science.  But we’re less sure how to make evidence-based practice the norm in our own settings.  This session will explore well-tested and effective strategies for development and implementation of evidence-based practice guidelines using a team approach.

4A.

A Winning Partnership:  Automation and EBP

Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS

Vice President, Information Services
Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI

Technology enables evidence-based practice to be a reality by facilitating the delivery of identified evidence-based practices and by supporting analyses that reveal the evidence for practices that correlate with optimum health outcomes, efficiencies and cost.  This presentation will describe the power of deploying technology to nurses at the point of care, as well as the power of the clinical data that can be captured and analyzed to evaluate outcomes and identify new nursing knowledge.

5A.

Creating Partnerships to Enhance Patient Care

Christine Lund, MSN, RN, CNAA

Nurse Executive
Minneapolis, VAMC
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN

The nurse executive serves a pivotal role in launching evidence-based practice initiatives and creating partnerships in order to enhance patient outcomes. In this role s/he is the coordinator of activities among all partners in organizing and directing the initiatives that will enhance patient care through evidence-based practice. This presentation will describe the role of the nurse executive with facility, community, University and national partnerships that promote, support or engage evidence based practice and allow time for discussion of initiatives that could be implemented in the participants’ practice setting.

12:15 – 1:45 pm

Lunch on own

Speaker and Planning Committee Lunch

1:45pm – 2:45 pm

B. Concurrent Sessions

(repeat morning sessions)

2:45pm – 3:00 pm

Break

 

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Plenary Session

New and Emerging Evidence on Patient Falls

Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Chief of Nursing Research and Director
VISN 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry
James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL
Associate Director, Clinical Research
College of Nursing, University of South Florida

We have made little progress in reducing falls over the past 3 decades, and practices are based largely on tradition rather than science.  New and emerging research reveals that many of the “best practices” used to prevent falls in health care are not effective and may jeopardize safety and quality of care.  This presentation focuses on a new paradigm for understanding patient falls and moving towards evidence-based fall prevention and protection from fall-related injuries.

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Light Networking Reception

Book signing event

Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, FAAN

Senior Partner and Mediator
Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

The following books will be available for purchase:

*Cash, checks, and all major credit cards accepted

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

8:00am – 9:00 am

Registration

Continental Breakfast

9:00am – 10:30 am

Welcome and Introduction

Mary Marchetto, MSN, RN

Director of Nursing Education and Research Center (118)
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System
Baltimore, MD
Conference Co-Chair

Sigma Theta Tau, Pi Chapter Distinguished Lecture

Joining Hands: Working Together to Improve the Delivery of Evidence-Based Care

Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH

Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Health
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Americans receive only half of recommended services, in part because physicians face barriers in delivering evidence-based care.  Many of these barriers can be overcome by a collaborative approach, in which teams within practices share a systems approach to care delivery that involves nurses and other staff members and in which practices reach outside their walls to the community to engage additional services for patients.  The presentation will discuss current models in which primary care practices work collaboratively with community programs to help patients modify behavioral risk factors such as smoking and obesity.

10:30am – 10:45 am

Break

 

10:45 am – 12 noon

C. Concurrent Sessions

1C. Panel Discussion

Collaborative Success Stories: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond

Moderator: Lyn Murphy, PhD, MBA, MS, RN

Director of Professional Development
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Evidence-based practice is an approach that allows health care providers to deliver the highest quality of care necessary to meet the multi-faceted needs of today’s complex patients. The paradigm of evidence based practice extends across the continuum from the creation of evidence at the “bench” to the implementation of the evidence at “bedside” and into the community. In this presentation, we will explore how two collaborative teams generated and translated research into nursing practice.

2C.

Nursing Dashboards Based on Evidence: Impacting Fiscal Decision-Making

Kenneth J. Rempher, PhD, RN, MBA, CCRN, APRN, BC

Kenneth J. Rempher, PhD, MBA, RN, CCRN, APRN, BC
Director of Professional Nursing Practice
Sinai Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Helping direct care nurses quantify their contribution to the delivery of high quality nursing care is paramount in efforts to increase accountability. Through the use of dashboards built around the 10 required Magnet indicators, direct care nurses are better able to appreciate how they impact patient care, and subsequently, how they can use the information provided to change practice by impacting fiscal decision-making. This session will demonstrate how one organization uses dashboards to empower nurses.

3C.

Adopting and Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice in Your Organization

Christine Baker, PhD, RN

Administrative Director/Quality and Safety Systems
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Nursing and Outcomes
St. Marys Hospital and Medical Center, Madison, WI

Evidence-Based Practice is an essential component of safe and effective professional nursing practice. Adopting and sustaining an Evidence-Based Practice model requires a culture of clinical inquiry and the development of organizational capacity and competency for finding, analyzing, and integrating best evidence into day-to-day work. The presentation will outline key strategies that your organization can use on your journey to Evidence-Based Practice.

4C.

The State of Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Medicine, Social Work and Nursing in Evidence-Based Practice: Together or Separate?  

Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN

Assistant Dean for DNP Studies and Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Interdisciplinary collaboration has synergistic potential for evidence-based practice, yet models, frameworks and tools are often discipline specific.  This session will focus on the issues of interdisciplinary collaboration, with video clips of experts in evidence-based practice from medicine, social work, public health and psychology.

5C.

Changing Leadership to Meet the Needs of Today’s Health Care Environment

Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, RN

Associate Dean
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Joan Warren, PhD, RN-BC

Director, Professional Practice and Research
Franklin Square Hospital Center

This presentation will describe innovative approaches to building confidence and competency in nursing leadership to use evidence based practice and lead change. To advance evidence based practice in practice settings, leadership of change is critical join with us in exploring strategies that support this development.

12 noon – 1:30 pm

Buffet Lunch for All Participants

Poster Session

1:30pm – 2:45 pm

D. Concurrent Sessions

(repeat morning sessions)

2:45pm – 3:00 pm

Break

 

3:00pm – 4:15 p.m.

Closing Session

Diamond in the Rough:  The Many Facets of Collaboration

Cathy Rick, RN, CNAA, FACHE

Chief Nursing Officer
Department of Veterans Affairs

Why do we do what we do? Practice based on evidence requires asking the right questions and having the “right” team at the table. All signs point to professional engagement and accountability as a means to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of nursing practice. 

4:15 p.m.

Close of Conference

Evaluations

Charlene Quinn, PhD, RN

Conference Co-Chair, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Conference Co-Chair